Latics top agents’ fees league table

Paul Kendrick

WIGAN Athletic have paid out a whopping £1,461,088 in agents’ fees in the last year, according to official figures released on Monday.

Unsurprisingly, the amount is the highest total in League One, and indeed only five clubs in the Championship - Cardiff, Fulham, Hull, QPR and Reading - shelled out more.

The figures are for the 12-month period starting on October 1, 2014, when Latics were still chasing their dream of returning to the Premier League and paying out fees commensurate with that.

Latics have also been the busiest club in the country in each of the last two transfer windows, with an unprecedented amount of transfer business taking place in the last year.

They brought in virtually a new team during last January’s transfer window in a desperate - ultimately unsuccessful - bid to stave off relegation from the Championship.

Then, over the summer, they signed over 20 new players to completely revamp the squad in an attempt to achieve promotion at the first attempt.

The next highest spenders in League One were Millwall, who were relegated along with Latics last season, while Bury - promoted from League Two - are the only club in the division who didn’t hand over a single penny to agents.